Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train . |
| 2 | The staff and students are quickly getting to know each other and are shaping up into a hardworking and enthusiastic team . |
| 3 | Telling you , I thought we 'd of been clomping around on the bare floor-boards and sitting on orange-boxes watching a wee black-and-white portable for ever . |
| 4 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 5 | Fortunately , some experience had been building up on the European continent , in Holland in particular , with DMUs which had very reliable and cost-effective engines and transmissions . |
| 6 | The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak . |
| 7 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 8 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |
| 9 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 10 | The growing demands and applications being made of plastics are filtering through to the additive market , requiring them to be constantly updated and made more efficient , and thus leading to higher prices , explained the report . |
| 11 | New opportunities are opening up in the near future which you must be calm enough to accept . |
| 12 | These people are going into the familiar local stores where they shop and are walking out with the American dream they could never afford on a minimum wage . |
| 13 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 14 | The traditional multilateral institutions , IMF and World Bank , are gearing up for a major contribution . |
| 15 | Greece and Cyprus stay hot and dry , but the Balkans and Turkey are cooling off to a nice temperature for hikers . |
| 16 | As the prospects of a Tory victory recedes , the likes of Sunderland car magnate Sir Tom Cowie and Tyneside bus burgher Martin Ballinger have been banging on about the Tory cause . |
| 17 | ‘ There are thousands , maybe tens of thousands , who are dying out in the rural areas , or as they make their way to the towns to get help . |
| 18 | They are mopping up in a southerly direction . |
| 19 | The twins , David and Michael , had been prowling about in the front garden waiting for the sight of Belinda 's car , and as soon as she stepped out into the driveway and came up the path to the house they raced ahead of her inside to relay the news of her arrival , without even saying hello to her . |
| 20 | ‘ Other members of the herd are swimming around in the blood-red sea as this killing continues . |
| 21 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 22 | For this reason , an all-round practice gives better training than a specialised one — but it may be well worth taking articles in a specialised firm if you are assured that they are looking out for a bright young man/woman like you to be a partner . |
| 23 | MORE people are looking in at the local , if figures from West Country brewer Devenish are any guide . |
| 24 | Tutor Viv Shelley will look at whether manufacturing industries are living up to the green images they promote , the adequacy of monitoring processes and ask what responsibility lies with the public . |
| 25 | To most people the term Gatt means very little but the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which 108 countries have been wrestling over for the past six years is vital to fair trading throughout the world . |
| 26 | our next stop is over in Herefordshire at Ross on Wye … we 're meeting up with a young tennis player who 's won himself a place at the world 's top coaching clinic … the story of Tim Bibby is our Friday Feature |
| 27 | I mean if you , you 're the burglar now and you 're planning to break in a house , and you 're looking around at the different houses and you 're trying to , one of the many things you 're trying to do is to establish whether they 're in or out . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're going back on the defensive , Mark . |
| 29 | Now they 're going back to a sensitive area . |
| 30 | Now they 're going back to a sensitive area . |